Ausborne Blog

My body hurts. From the tips of my fingers, through my hands, up my arms to my shoulders, and all throughout my back, the ache alternates between pointed and dull. After eleven hours of working on my kids’ bathroom Saturday, I feel like my body really has given up.

It started on a whim. I had been at Lowe’s picking out some grout for the tile that I’ve been laying in the basement laundry room when, believe it or not, I found some more tile. Not only did I find more tile, but I found tile that I liked that I could actually afford!

Well, I bought 30 pieces of 13×13″ “Desert Beige” and 45 square feet of HardiBacker (I guess it’s now HardieBacker), along with a bunch of mortar, and was off the redo the bathroom.

First I had to rip up the old nasty vinyl flooring, which also required the removal of the toilet. I hate working with toilets, by the way. Gross.

So, I got all of flooring ripped up and got the Hardi(e)Backer, and then I was time to start the tile. Wifey, at this point, told me that she would be impressed if I got most of the tile laid before she got home at 1:00 in the morning, which sounded like some sort of challenge to me.

I laid most all of the tile out to see how everything would line up and it all looked good, so it was time to start.

Nine hours later, the tile was all installed, the baseboard was reinstalled, and the toilet was back in place. I even got some of the caulking done. The only things left to do are the grout and the caulking around the toilet (after the grout, of course).

My whole body aches.